Word: hunkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Noah Oppenheim's most recent piece (Opinion, Jan. 20) suggests that "one of the best ways to hunker down is to derive at least some small, sick and twisted satisfaction in the fact that someone has it worse than you." Those who have it "worse," include starving Russians, massacred Kosovan refugees, and adolescent murder victims...
...much better. Perspective is important--indeed necessary--but all pain is relative. Every January this campus becomes a crucible of stress and anxiety. For those who have trouble coping, the health travails of the Russian premiere are understandably little solace. And yet, sometimes, one of the best ways to hunker down is to derive at least some small, sick and twisted satisfaction in the fact that someone has it worse than...
...face of big revenue gains. Dixon Ticonderoga Co., based in Heathrow, Fla., a 203-year-old maker of pens, pencils, chalks, watercolors, highlighters and other types of markers, is slashing its marketing budget in spite of a hefty 14% increase in sales last year. "We have to hunker down here," says company president and CEO Gino N. Pala. "We have to watch things closely. I don't think we've felt the worst of the economic crunch yet. I think the damage has already been done, but we've got to work through it." He says that he intends...
...beard,' in Hollywood parlance, is a man employed by a male star to accompany him when he appears in public with a woman not his wife. Sometimes female stars use them too. A 'hunker' is somebody kept on the payroll to know baseball scores, send out for coffee and strike matches on." --Aug. 29, 1955, from a footnote to a cover story on Frank Sinatra...
...most publicly on the face of White House Spokesman Mike McCurry, whose scowl before reporters today broke only when he talked about leaving the podium. But Branegan says that for the Administration, the spin is simple: Just keep going. "The idea, for everyone from Clinton on down, is to hunker down and redouble their efforts." And hope that this scandal, like all the others, never quite comes home to roost...